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Frederick Lawson Hovde (Rhodes 1929)

Military Science. Education Administration. Rhodes Scholar, University of Oxford. Council on Foreign Relations.

He served as a member of the Board of Visitors to the United States Naval Academy, Board of Visitors to the Air University, Air Training Command Advisory Board, Board of Consultants to the National War College, and Board of Visitors to the United States Air Force Academy.[5]

Member of the Board of Directors of the Investors Mutual, Investors Stock, Investors Selective, Investors Variable Payment, IDS Progressive, and the IDS Bond Funds.[5]

Board of Consultants to the National War College, and a member of the Army Scientific Advisory Panel.[5]

Hovde received more than 20 honorary doctoral degrees in a variety of disciplines from colleges and university throughout the United States.[5]

1979, Hovde accepted membership on the Board of Governors of the Purdue Foundation, and he became a member of the President’s Council in 1980.[5]

1976 to 1979 - Trustee of the Sears-Roebuck Foundation.[5]

Spring of 1975, in honor of his years of service as President of Purdue University, the Board of Trustees of the University renamed the Executive Building the Frederick L. Hovde Hall of Administration.[5]

1972 to 1977 - Member of the Board of Governors of the Investment Company Institute.[5]

Oct 1971, he was honored with membership in the Indiana Academy.[5]

1971 to 1973 - Member of the Reorganization Committee of the Indiana State Department of Public Instruction.[5]

1970 to 1973 - Member of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports by President Richard Nixon (Bohemian).[5]

1970 - Recieved the Theodore Roosevelt Award from the National Collegiate Athletic Association.[5]

1970 - Received the Distinguished Public Service Medal from the Department of Defense.[5]

1967 to 1970 - A member of the National Advisory Health Manpower Council of the Public Health Service of the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare to John W. Gardner by President Lyndon B. Johnson.[5]

1967, recieved the Washington Award form the Western Society of Engineers and the Gold Medal Award from the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame.[5]

1965, Appointed member of the board of visitors at the US Military Academy at West Point by President Lyndon B. Johnson.[7]

1963 - Received Distinguished Public Service Award from the Department of the Navy.[5]

Jan 1961 - Chairman of the President-Elect’s Task Force Committee on Education by President John F. Kennedy.[4][5]

March 1960, Hovde served on a special National Academy of Sciences committee which met at the Jacksonville, Florida Naval Air Station to review the ship-building and modernization needs of the U.S. Navy.[5]

1961 - Received the Exceptional Civilian Service Award from the Department of the Air Force.[5]

1959 to 1978 - Member of the Board of Directors of Inland Steel Company.[5]

1957 - Named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).[5]

1956 to 1979 - Director of General Electric.[5]

1956 to 1957 - Army Science Board Leadership.

1956 to 1957 - Member of the President’s Committee on Education Beyond High School by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.[4][5]

1955 to 1956 - Vice chairman of the American Council on Education.[5]

1953 to 1954 - President of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges.[5]

1952 to 1960, Member, 1956 to 1958, Chairing the Panel of the Army Scientific Advisory Panel, Department of the Army.[5]

Sep 1951, Member, 1953 to 1955, Acting Board Chairman, Board of Foreign Scholarships of the Department of State, Secretary Dean Acheson (S&K 1915) by President Harry S. Truman (Freemason).[5]

1950 to 1952 - Chairman of the Building Research Advisory Board of the National Research Council.[5]

1947 to 1949 - While at Purdue, he also served as chairman of the Committee on Guided Missiles of the Research and Development Board (OSRD).[5]

1946 to 1971 - President of Purdue University.[3] A period that marked the university’s greatest growth and led to its emergence as a leading research institution. Under his administration, the longest of any Purdue president, university enrollment increased to 39,500 from 5,600 and its annual budget to $136 million from $12.7 million.[4]

WW2 - Joined Government service and was assigned as head of the London Mission of Office of Scientific Research and Development.[4]

WW2, 1943, Hovde was made Chief of Division 3, Rocket Ordnance Research, of the National Defense Research Committee. In recognition of his war services he received the President’s Medal for Merit and was awarded the King’s Medal for Service in the Cause of Freedom by the British Government. [5]

WW2, 1942, he assumed the position of Executive Assistant to Dr. James B.Conant [Harvard Fly Club, Interim Committee with Henry L. Stimson (S&B 1888) and George L. Harrison (S&B 1910)], the president of Harvard, Chairman of the National Defense Research Committee,in Washington, D.C.[5]

WW2, 1941, following the outbreak of World War II, Hovde was called to government duty with the newly established National Defense Research Committee, which later became a part of the war-time Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD). His first assignment was as head of the London Mission of the OSRD. While in England, he received his Master’s degree from Oxford University.

… In recognition of his war services, he received the President’s Medal for Merit and was awardd the King’s Medal for Service in the cause of Freedom by the British Government.[4]

1936, Assistant to the President, University of Rochester. Lecturer in Chemistry and executive secretary of the Rochester Prize Scholarships.[4][5]

1933 - Married Priscilla L. Boyd. The couple had three children:F. Boyde, Jane, and Linda.[5]

Assistant Director of newly established General College of the University of Minnesota.[5]

1929 to 1932 - Rhodes Scholar, Brasenose College, University of Oxford.[1] (BA/MA)[5]

1929 - Graduated University of Minnesota.[5] (BA Chemical Engineering)[5]

Died 1 Mar 1983, from Not Known. Age 75. Central Presbyterian Church.

[1] - Rhodes Database

[2] - The Arkron Beacon Journal, hio - Hovde Named Purdue Head

[3] - FYI - Wiki - Frederick Lawson Hovde (Rhodes 1929)

[4] - FREDRICK LAWSON HOVDE, 75, FORMER PRESIDENT OF PURDUE By Walter H. Waggoner (March 2, 1983)

[5] - Purdue University - A Guide to The Ferderick L. Hovde Paper, Biographical Sketch Page 4.

[6] - PAST ARMY SCIENCE BOARD LEADERSHIP - Dr. Frederick L. Hovde1956 – 1957

[7] - Catalog of the U.S. Military Academy By Military Academy, West Point. 1965, Appointed member of the board of visitors at the US Military Academy at West Point by President Lyndon B. Johnson.